I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.